Service · Fractional Staff Engineer
Staff-level ownership for the initiatives you can’t afford to get wrong.
Some initiatives are too ambiguous, too cross-functional, or too risky to leave to a stretched team — and don’t justify a full-time Staff hire either. I take ownership of exactly those: clarify the problem, align product, design, and backend stakeholders, make a realistic plan, and deliver the most critical parts myself.
Sound familiar?
The situations this service exists for.
- ■A high-stakes initiative has been 'almost done' for months and nobody owns it end to end
- ■Your strongest engineers are good, but the team lacks someone who has shipped this class of system before
- ■Architecture decisions are being made by default rather than on purpose
- ■You need honest technical judgment that isn’t attached to any internal agenda
Scope
What the work covers.
- ■End-to-end ownership of one critical initiative: from ambiguity to a delivery plan to shipped software
- ■Architecture reviews and written technical direction
- ■Stakeholder alignment across product, design, and backend
- ■Mentoring senior engineers toward Staff-level judgment
- ■Selective hands-on delivery of the highest-risk components
Outcomes
What you end up with.
- ■A stalled initiative moving again, with a plan people actually believe
- ■Decisions documented and owned, not accumulated by accident
- ■A stronger team when the engagement ends — the opposite of vendor lock-in
Engagement formats
How to buy this.
Technical Strategy Session
60–90 minutes
A paid working session on one defined problem: an architecture choice, an AI feature plan, a performance question, a build-vs-buy call. You bring the context; I bring pattern recognition from 13+ years of shipping in situations like yours.
Start here →Implementation or Rescue Sprint
2–4 weeks, fixed scope
I take hands-on ownership of the most critical part of the work — writing production code, making the blocking decisions, and coordinating with your product, design, and backend people until it ships.
Start here →Fractional Staff Engineer / Technical Advisor
Monthly engagement
Ongoing senior ownership at a defined weekly cadence: architecture reviews, product-engineering alignment, technical mentoring, and selective hands-on delivery where it moves the needle most.
Start here →- ■A high-stakes initiative needs an accountable technical owner
- ■The team is strong but has not shipped this class of system before
- ■You need Staff-level judgment without another permanent hire
Not a fit
This is not a fit when…
- ■You need a full outsourced product team
- ■Open-ended implementation with no accountable outcome
- ■Generic low-cost staff augmentation
How much time do you commit?
A defined weekly cadence agreed up front — enough to own architecture direction and the critical path, alongside your team's delivery.
How does this end?
By design: decisions documented, knowledge transferred, and a stronger team. The goal is no dependency on me.
Writer
AI agents demo well and fail quietly. At Writer I build the layer that makes them dependable: workflow structure, grounded knowledge, enterprise identity, and the unhappy paths.
MEGOGO
Live sports don’t get a second take. As Engineering Team Lead at MEGOGO I owned player and app delivery across web, Smart TV, mobile, and console platforms.
Tell me what is blocked, underperforming, or difficult to ship.
I will tell you whether I can help — and what the smallest useful next step would be. If I’m not the right person, I’ll say so.